glassy-eyed

The gun salesman did not perceive Biden to be under the influence or glassy-eyed, and no witness saw him using drugs in the days after, when he owned the Colt Cobra revolver.

Hawkers yelled and buyers bargained, standing over glassy-eyed seer, mackerel, and bass.

People who had been laughing with their friends and taking selfies an hour and a half earlier looked glassy-eyed and peaceful, as if they were coming out of a trance.

This is what the rental business aspires toward, actually, but for now, we’re left with what I believe is the single most maddening, inefficient element of America’s travel infrastructure: Every time I rent a car, I find myself 27th in line, with two glassy-eyed employees standing behind a row of conspicuously empty desks and no end in sight.

“EO” tangoes with Bresson and “Nope” tussles with Spielberg, but their most purely expressive images may be of a beast of burden’s glassy-eyed gaze — a window into a soul that we endanger at our convenience and our peril.